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Skirting the Issue

Somebody saw the enemy’s fearless leader
secretly slinking away
The battle in the blood desert field of Raqqa
was still raging on
Hell’s fury had more than a pound of flesh
left to take
But that fearless leader, 
who was seen...

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Categories: pound of flesh, death, religion, war, wisdom,
Form: Narrative



You Are My Mary
Go cast your stones if you will, and tell me
Your innocence is more just than her cause
Or read me in sand, flee her victory
Where you link the chain of demonic laws
For she a slave of...

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Categories: pound of flesh, faith, inspirational, loveday, me, sweet, day, love,
Form: Sonnet
Banks
Chorus
Banks! Banks! Let us all do away with banks
And their dirty tricks and their silly pranks
Banks! Banks! They mean very little to me
If I was the king all banks will be history
If I was the...

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Categories: pound of flesh, political, satire,
Form: Lyric
Seven Metres
If you approach anyone
Remember always
There is seven metres
To be safe 
From a blade

He was a violent offender 
Who beat his girlfriend often
And he broke the law 
Acts his community would always defend

He caused the Medical...

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Categories: pound of flesh, death, life, murder,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Boo Land

In Boo Land ...

Every gagged mouth is covered 
by a grave reeker hand
Raven black-cloaked, vomit foul specter
maniacally sob laughing
Someone’s been tilting the tomb bottles again,
tipping thru the Pet Sematary growling 

Inflicting fear is the feral...

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Categories: pound of flesh, dark, fear, scary, violence,
Form: Verse



Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War
Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.

Lifetime trauma inflicted perpetrators wage
dead bodies littered makeshift triage
death and destruction
exhibit super fresh killing fields,
where sally...

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Categories: pound of flesh, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement, brother, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
From My Roof Top
FROM MY ROOF TOP

From my roof top I see the world crumbles
I saw people of mine shout, endlessly
They shout for two common things
They shout for these two alone
Prosperity and democracy
They want an answer and their...

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Categories: pound of flesh, political
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member New Babylon
It’s coming can’t you feel it
Something, absolutely wrong
They’re preaching greed and hatred
In the lyrics to their song
The precipice we’re perched upon
Hums! like a ticking bomb
As they herald their New Order
Their Future Babylon

Iniquity in every song
They...

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Categories: pound of flesh, bible, corruption, evil, holocaust, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday's Child
Her shadows' printed on the wall
at Aushwitz and at Buchenwald
She stares out of the Holocaust
with vacant eyes, forever lost
She's traveling the "Trail of Tears"
She falls behind but no one hears
In Vietnam a rain falls down
in...

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Categories: pound of flesh, life, loss, people, sad, social, time, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
The Teflon Don
Written By:  D. Collins 8/23/19


The same ego maniac who thought nothing would stick.
Had no clue of the conviction we are working with.
We are coming to get him.  He had best believe that.
"The Chosen...

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Categories: pound of flesh, judgement, political,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Nigeria's Flawed 2023 Polls
Well, so they tell us-
the political gladiators and
heavy weights. That in permanent
servitude we must remain.

They create a void in our stomachs,
which they momentarily fill with
what they carted away from us.
Just for their self will and...

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Categories: pound of flesh, political, satire,
Form: Free verse
The Recepticle : One of a kind
Recepticle:  One of a kind

It was a thoughtful gift
in the shape of her heart

Symbolic inscription-
"Love's Everlasting Hopes"
kept next to the front door
In shadow, in half-light.

She kept her car keys there.
Small change, new receipts
pins and...

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Categories: pound of flesh, beautiful, care, change, confidence, heart, hope,
Form: Free verse
Photograph
Looking at these photos, from not that long ago
I couldn’t help but wonder, where did that person go 
The images so full of life and smiles upon that face
When I looked into that mirror, I...

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Categories: pound of flesh, angst,
Form: Free verse
A Klingon Love Poem
A Klingon Love Poem
                    (In Klingon and English)

 tlhIngan bang bom tlhab
(pa' tlhIngan 'ej English Hol)

tugh...

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Categories: pound of flesh, abuse, adventure, beauty, emotions, image, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Death N Taxes II
I have heard all your excuses 
I have listened to all your pleas
It is time to pay the pipers 
With the sweet tears of your misery
Ahh the suffering 
You have to surrender all your taxes...

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Categories: pound of flesh, allegory, allusion, america, angel, angst, art, color,
Form: Rhyme
It Only Takes One Finger
Hamas, Palestine, Israel, 
Syria, Russia, Ukraine.
China, Taiwan, North Korea, 
it’s becoming too insane.

Old man Biden or old man Trump, 
might be another squeaker.
It seems like hate keeps getting strong,
while peace keeps getting weaker.

Homophobia, transphobia,
gender inequality....

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Categories: pound of flesh, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxxi
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXI

IF you pull a long lagging-behind face
You deserve your copycat status in more than one way
Marco Polo brought back cracker-power not to powder face
Noble Savage Injuns and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pound of flesh, anti bullying, cinco de mayo, england, firework,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Africa
I am an African
She asked me what Africa was all about
I told her that there were cornfields
As far as the eye could see
There were rivers and gullies
Wild fruit growing on trees everywhere
People going about their...

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Categories: pound of flesh, africa, earth, joy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fly
See them crawling all over the ceiling
Pointing their slender anther in the air,
Their bugling eyes covered in a pound of flesh 
Waiting to plunge to their sacramental death
And the wind with a mountain of sin...

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Categories: pound of flesh, animal, culture, dark, gothic, innocence, money, moon,
Form: Free verse
Mark Felt Repeat
Written By:  D. Collins 2/18/19


Mark Felt is a name so seldom heard.
Because today is a replica of what incurred.
A lot of dirty people that goes right to the top.
Denying involvement from the very start.


We...

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Categories: pound of flesh, corruption, political,
Form: Sonnet
Police Close Children's Lemonade Stand
Police Close Children’s Lemonade Stand

By Elton Camp

In Midway, Georgia the cops got it right this time
They put a quick stop in the early stages of crime
And it wasn’t some robber who had got out of...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pound of flesh, businesschildren, children, money,
Form: Rhyme
Vacant Eyes
You've seen that look before,
so many times that you lost count
It's the look of hopelessness,
the look of despair
Vacant eyes that no longer care
Who let the emptiness in,
who stole their zest for life
Who squeezed the vitality...

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Categories: pound of flesh, depression, hurt, pain, sad,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Redemption and Remorse
Men and women by choices made,
Remorse resides, a haunting shade.
Within the depths a troubled soul,
The pound of flesh does take its toll.

A symphony of tomorrow's past,
Melancholy notes that forever last.
In moments lost, where darkness thrives,
Redemption...

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Categories: pound of flesh, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Vancouver
Vancouver's a private reference and it's not really about Canada as a whole, just one
experience regarding the aforementioned. Shh!

Schwein Fleisch vs schweinefleisch. As two distinct words it literally means "pig skin" as
one word it means...

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Categories: pound of flesh, history, life, peoplewords, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Change Is Inevitable
Depression comes in many forms,
including thoughts of suicide.
And you start to entertain a multitude
of sad and bewildering emotions
that fester away
in the back of your mind.
Somehow your soul has lost its way,
and you wander blindly
amidst subconscious...

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Categories: pound of flesh, 10th grade, 11th grade, angst, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs